青藏高原有无大冰盖之争的现状

青藏高原有无大冰盖之争始于２０世纪初，至今已达８０余年。争论包括有无覆盖整个高原的大冰盖和有无局部小冰盖，以及它的形成年代，对便于气候变化的影响，可分为三个阶段：２０世纪初至４０年代，以少数西方探险家为主，论据不足，难于形讨论；从５０年代至７０年代，以中国学者为主的没有大冰盖论占绝对优势；８０年代至今中外学者众多、文献数百篇，是大争论的高潮，预示不久的将来，争论将逐渐平息，出现新的青藏高原科研热，

THE STATUS QUO OF THE DISPUTE OF WHETHER THERE WAS A GREAT GLACIAL SHEET ON THE QINGHAI-TIBET PLATEAU

The dispute of whether there was a great glacial sheet on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau started at the beginning of the 1920s and has lasted for more than 80 years. The subjects of dispute include the question whether there was a great glacial sheet covering the whole plateau and small glacial sheets localy as well their formation ages and influence on the global climatic change. The dispute involved three stages;from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1940s, the dispute was mainly between a few explorers from western countries, but for lack of evidences, it was difficult to carry out the discussion; from the 1950s to 1970s, the hypothesis of the absence of the great glacial sheets proposed mainly by the Chinese scholars; the period from the 1980s up to now has witnessed a culmination of dispute when there have been numerous Chines and foreign scholars who take part in the dispute and published a few hundred papers on this subject. It is predicted that in the near future the dispute will calm down. There will appear a new research on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau upsurge and the research will enter a new era when a serier of new theories on the history of geological evolution of Tibet and Asia and is influences on the natural environment and ecological system of East Asia.